• Navigation

  • Factory Made Violinmaking Planes
  • Metal Violinmaking Planes
  • Modern Violinmaking Planes
  • Other Small Planes
  • Traditional Violinmaking Planes
  • User Made Violinmaking Planes
  • Wooden Violinmaking Planes

• Featured Violinmaking Planes

  • 17th Century Instrument Maker’s Plane
  • Ibex Violin Makers Planes
  • Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Violinmaker’s Plane
  • Five Fancy Engraved Violinmaker’s Planes
  • Violin Maker’s Planes By Christopher Martyn

• Top Posts of the Day

  • Ibex Violin Makers Planes (11 views)
  • Bill Carter - 100 Miniature Boxwood Planes (7 views)
  • Violin Maker's Planes By Christopher Martyn (6 views)
  • Sappy Cocobolo Violin Plane (4 views)
  • 17th Century Instrument Maker's Plane (2 views)
  • Otner Botner Whale-Shaped Finger Plane (2 views)
  • G.E. Scarr Violinmaker's Planes (2 views)
  • Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. - No. 1 Violin Plane (2 views)
  • Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Violinmaker's Plane (2 views)
  • 3 Signed Violinmaker’s Planes With Ivory Wedges (1 views)

• Tags

  Bill Carter brass plane chariot plane Christopher Martyn cocobolo engraved plane finger plane finger planes G.E. Scarr guitarmaking guitar making H.R. West Hammacher Schlemmer Ibex instrument makers plane Italian plane ivory ivory knob ivory wedge Krenov laminated lutherie luthier making planes musical instruments Otner Botner planemaker planemaking plane making small plane violin makers plane violin makers planes violinmaking violin making violin plane violin planes whale plane wooden plane wooden planes woodwork woodworking woodworking plane wrought iron tools

Tag archive for ‘guitar making’

G.E. Scarr Violinmaker’s Planes

Belonging to collector and tool seller, Jim Bode, these G.E. Scarr violin maker’s planes are in near mint, and practically unused, condition and come complete with their original red japanning. Made from gunmetal, the largest plane is 2 1/8″ long and has a 3/4″ iron, the middle plane is 1 5/8″ long with a 9/16″ [...]

Beech Violin Maker’s Plane By H. R. West

Here we have an American user-made violinmaker’s plane by H.R. West. Made from beech wood and measuring only about 1 3/4″ long, it has been constructed in two halves and “pinned” together with wooden dowels (possibly walnut). Though not the “traditional” method of hand plane construction, it is, nonetheless, a very valid one — especially [...]